I get that .later( :1month) is problematic for the last day(s),
particularly someone stepping month by month from 2021-12-31
may not expect to get 2022-03-28. But that can be considered
naive.
But for .later( :1year ) from a leap day, I am finding reports
that YYYY-03-1 is legalistically correct in the USA. This is
generally applied to establish age, old enough to: learn to
drive, vote, be sentenced as an adult. And the 'logic' is each
s the 60th day of the year.
For .later( :1year)
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 09:27:58PM +0100, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> > On 13 Dec 2021, at 05:23, rir <rir...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > REPL says:
> >> Date.new("2024-02-29").later( :1year);
> > 2025-02-28
> >
> > Is the following some standard?
>
> I'm not sure...
>
> Basically when moving by month / year, it just basically moves that field in
> the date, and then checks for validity of the resulting date, and then adapts
> (within the given month) to the first legal date.
>
> Since you're moving by month / year, it felt as the way for the least
> surprise.
>
>
>
> Liz
